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Collaborating on Collections as a
Community
Patricia Hswe | Penn State University Libraries Keystone Digital Humanities Conference
23 June 2016
A Project Showcase
LOTS of credit due to the people involved!
LOTS of credit due to the people involved!
. . . If you want to go far, go together.https://padigital.org/about-partnership/
That said . . . Images used in this presentation are credited on
the last slide.
The Story of PA Digital
PA Digital Collections Summit in summer 2014 / Emily Gore
The Story of PA Digital
Survey in fall 2014 about digital collections
PA Digital Collections Summit in summer 2014 / Emily Gore
The Story of PA Digital
Survey in fall 2014 about digital collections
PA Digital Collections Summit in summer 2014 / Emily Gore
Building the aggregator
The Story of PA Digital
Survey in fall 2014 about digital collections
PA Digital Collections Summit in summer 2014 / Emily Gore
Building the aggregator
Speaks for itself
The Story of PA Digital
“Social engineering” side of the effort
“Social engineering” side of the effort
How do you get a distributed bunch of people to collaborate, coordinate, get things DONE?
PA Digital Collections Summit – Summer 2014
• Among participants were . . . – Temple U., PA State Library, Penn, Penn State, Keystone Library Network, Carnegie Library, POWER Library, PALCI, Heinz History Center, and more!
• Emily Gore, DPLA Director of Content • Break-‐out sessions • Next steps
Surveying the PA digital collections landscape
• Survey released in August 2014 & open until June 2015 – Example questions: How do you handle copyright clearance? Who hosts your digital collections? What DAMS do you use? Metadata schema?
• 239 organizations responded, 70% public and academic libraries
• Access the survey results at https://is.gd/pdcp_survey
Surveying the PA digital collections landscape
Surveying the PA digital collections landscape
We know we need more participants that are museums and archives.
Building the aggregator• Proof-‐of-‐concept purpose / show & tell – Prototype aggregator by March/April 2015
• Production aggregator in 2016 – OAI-‐PMH harvesting and serving – Metadata is transformed, based on OAI and DPLA requirements
– Preview layer is web-‐based – Intentionally “verbose logging”
• To learn more, view this DPLAFest 2016 video presentation about PA Digital: https://is.gd/padigital_dplafest
Code for DPLA Hydra Head: https://github.com/tulibraries/dplah
http://libcollab.temple.edu/aggregator
THE “SOCIAL ENGINEERING” ASPECTS
Yes, the tool is important, but more so the people!
Milestones
• April 2015 – proof-‐of-‐concept aggregator • July 2015 – submitted application to become a service hub
• Late August 2015 – application approved! • January/February 2016 – initial ingest of PA Digital content
• April 2016 – PA Digital content live in the DPLA!
Impact of the aggregator
• Proof-‐of-‐concept state = unifying, consolidating application not only in terms of technology – Tangibility
• Advantages re: metadata remediation/normalization, distributed workflows
• Outreach tool • Local (institutional context) usage/potential
What’s next?
• Lots of outreach! • Governance work • Addressing feature requests about / from –Metadata – Aggregator – DPLA
Image credits• take a photo -‐ https://www.flickr.com/photos/bruce_aldridge/8239964617/ via
Flickr by Bruce Aldridge CC BY-‐SA 2.0
• Free Library of Philadelphia -‐ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Free_Library_of_Philadelphia.jpg via WikimediaCommons by nanoman657 CC BY-‐SA 3.0
• Surveying -‐ https://www.flickr.com/photos/carbonnyc/12270235054/ via Flickr by David Goehring CC BY 2.0
• Buzzword Bingo: Metadata = Data about data -‐ https://www.flickr.com/photos/planeta/11427773216/ via Flickr by Ron Mader CC BY-‐SA 2.0
• Construction worker at Westlake Center, 1988 -‐ https://www.flickr.com/photos/seattlemunicipalarchives/6648032895 via Flickr by Seattle Municipal Archives CC BY 2.0
• IMG_6531 -‐ https://www.flickr.com/photos/h3nr0/5012587802/ via Flickr by Henry Tseng CC BY 2.0
